Stevie Nicholl

And while I agree with Stevie, I think Barcelona, Sydney are in a poor position of favourites as far as I'm concerned right now.

I would also agree in saying that

We have a whole lot more questions about Real Madrid right now than we do Barcelona, but we've done that all season long, and it's four points.

Barcelona have seemed to be the more settled, the more assured.

We've had these questions about Real Madrid all season long, their form, to your point, Kay, whistling, Vinicius Jr.,

And it's still four points.

And you saw against Raya Vallecano yesterday that high Barcelona line, which still is unconvincing.

Joan Garcia continues to be Barcelona's standout player.

But...

That four-point gap, the classical to come, at the Nibiru in the bar where they are absolutely perfect.

I think at this point, it is Barcelona's title to lose.

It's a great problem to have, and that's why Albaloa gets paid the big bucks.

But the challenge is, how do you change a team that's winning and winning consistently...

But then how do you leave out Kylian Mbappe and Jude Bellingham?

Yeah, more comfortable sitting here having to discuss that.

It seems to always happen, and for good reason, for both, and very contrasting for both James Trafford and Kepa.

Trafford, who got the nod early on from Pep Guardiola, you knew that was coming, Pep has done this throughout his entire career, and turned up big time, especially early on with that save to keep Arsenal out.

Had that gone in, who knows how the game would have played out.

And then, of course,

well this is the james trafford uh triple save um which listen as things go to make this kind of save or saves this early on just settles you right down and and you feel great going going into well the next 84 minutes we're with this so credit to james trafford for for his performance but then tellingly kept by the other end later on a couple of mistakes one that just kind of